Product Description
Separation Anxiety
Author: Laura Zigman
Format: Paperback
'Quirky, comic, honest' — Marian Keyes
'Funny and charming' — Judy Blume
'Wise and wonderful' — Alice Hoffman
'Written with such humour and heart' — Stylist
'A must read' — RED
If you've ever wondered whether you love your dog more than your partner...
Life hasn't gone according to Judy's plan. Her career as a children's book author has taken a nose dive. Her teenage son Teddy treats her with a combination of embarrassment and indifference. She has 'separated' from her husband, Gary, who is living in the basement as they can't afford a divorce.
And every day she has to write content for an uplifting self-help website while stalking her nemesis online - a creativity-lifestyle-coach guru with a social media following the size of Jupiter. All Judy wants is to not feel invisible. All she wants is to fill that space inside her. And when she decides to declutter the house, she hits on a radical solution...
Gleefully irreverent, tender, funny and uplifting, Separation Anxiety is a book filled with happiness and heart. A novel about the connections we make, the people we love and the joyful messiness of life.
Praise for Separation Anxiety
'I adored this wise, funny, sad, quirky story...It's brilliant on the stories we tell ourselves and others in order to resist change, while beating ourselves up about not taking steps towards a happier future. Heartbreaking and life-affirming.' — Daily Mail
'Separation Anxiety was exactly what I needed for a change of pace, funny and charming' — Judy Blume
'What a gem of a novel...It's laced with moments of self-doubt and marital mayhem, but also the many small daily acts of mercy and heroism that love inspires.' — Diane Ackerman
'I enjoyed Separation Anxiety very much... It has a real freshness of voice and though it is very poignant, several parts also made me laugh out loud' — Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of Us
'So sweetly funny, so very touching.' — Sainsburys magazine
'My advice: Start reading and don't stop until you get to the last page of this wise and wonderful novel.' — Alice Hoffman
'[A] novel about stress, release, and the unlikely places we turn to for comfort in uncertain times' — Vogue
'Laura Zigman is able to home in on the most tender, revealing, exquisitely painful aspects of our relationships with others and with ourselves. And somehow she manages to come out the other end with hope.' — Chelsea Handler
'[Separation Anxiety] is compassionate and funny, articulating with gentle humor the terrible things that we're all grappling with. To steal a phrase from my daughter, it made me happy-cry.' — Laura Lippman
About the Author
Laura Zigman is the author of ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, which was a bestseller and was made into the film Someone Like You, starring Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd), Dating Big Bird, Piece of Work and Her. She has also been a contributor to the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Huffington Post. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband, son and deeply human Sheltie.
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